Goldblum's still the best thing in 3-D update of 'Jurassic Park'

Forget blowing the images up to Imax size and converting the lunging velociraptors and T. Rexes into 3-D. The best reason to revive "Jurassic Park" for its 20th anniversary is Jeff Goldblum.Yes, children, there was a time when Goldblum was sci-fi's "ultimate explainer," as producer Dean Devlin labeled him in "Independence Day." Goldblum's bug eyes said "scientist-smart," and his mannered, considered and hesitating line-readings reinforce that. His very presence in movies from "The Fly" onward screamed "complicated science, made understandable and plausible."As "chaos theory" expert Dr. Ian Malcolm, Goldblum is the "Jurassic Park" skeptic in a cluster of greedy entrepreneurs and spellbound paleontologists (Laura Dern and Sam Neill).Goldblum, as Malcolm, has all the "What if things go wrong?" questions. And when they do, he utters this line, in that distinct, silky Goldblum purr:"Boy, do I hate being right all the time!""Jurassic Park," adapted from Michael Critchton's conceptually brilliant novel, is a horror movie wrapped in the trappings of early '90s speculative science.What a great time for a scary movie about a tycoon (Richard Attenborough) whose efforts have led to the breakthroughs that enable him and his backers to open an island theme park where dinosaurs have been back-engineered back to life.Not that they should have been. Things, as Dr. Malcolm predicts, will go wrong. Storms happen, cages fail, "sterile" dinosaurs turn out not to be. And people, who never walked the Earth at the same time as these beasts, are now the main item on the menu. Chaos theory incarnate.Steven Spielberg's film captures the terror in thunderous approaching footsteps that could only belong to something bigger than King Kong, in breathy sniffs from a nose as powerful as an air compressor. The dinosaurs, impressive in their animated actions and leathery digital texture in '93, haven't lost much of their moist, tactile menace over the decades. "Jurassic Park 3D" (3 stars)The 1993 Spielberg movie based on the Michael Crichton novel and set on an adventure island has children in peril, terror-inspiring effects and frightening "monsters." The 3-D effects are excellent with the still-menacing creatures. With Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough.Rated: PG-13 for science-fiction terror.Showing: Alderwood 7, Everett, Galaxy Monroe, Marysville, Meridian, Sundance, Woodinville, Cascade Mall.

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